International Journal of Preventive Medicine (Int J Prev Med)2008-780210112020022521922192ENStudent Research Committee, Department of Medical Library and Information Sciences, School of Management and Medical Information Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, IsfahanDepartment of Knowledge and Information Science, Yazd University, YazdDepartment of Knowledge and Information Science, School of Literature and Human Sciences, Lorestan University, Khorramabad20200225<p><span class="fontstyle0"><strong>Background</strong>: </span><span class="fontstyle2">The aim of the current study is to determine the Comparison of intellectual structure of<br />International Journal of Preventive Medicine (IJPM) with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) based<br />on author keywords and index terms of Scopus database and the degree of compatibility among<br />these two groups of keywords.</span></p><p><strong></strong><span class="fontstyle0"><strong>Methods</strong>: </span><span class="fontstyle2">This study was carried out using a co‑word technique,<br />which is one of the bibliometric methods. The study population consisted of 1104 articles published<br />in IJPM and indexed in Scopus database. After retrieval the articles, data for co‑word analyses<br />was extracted using UCINET and VOSviewer software applications and centrality criteria. Then,<br />the compatibility of author keywords and MeSH terms was examined by Jaccard’s similarity index.<br /></span></p><p><span class="fontstyle0"><strong>Results</strong>: </span><span class="fontstyle2">During the investigated years and among 2402 author keywords, on average, 561 author<br />keywords (23.36%) were exact matches, 417 author keywords (17.36%) were partial matches, and<br />1424 author keywords (59.28%) were not matched with the terms contained in the index. Author<br />keywords matching or not matching with index‑term categories formed the largest portion of partial<br />match keywords.</span></p><p><strong></strong><span class="fontstyle0"><strong>Conclusions</strong>: </span><span class="fontstyle2">The use of MeSH as a standard tool by medical journals for the<br />selection of keywords in scientific publications could improve the visibility and retrieval of articles,<br />and increase the number of citations and journals’ impact factor.<br /></span></p><p><span class="fontstyle0" style="color: #00652e;"><strong>Keywords</strong>: </span><span class="fontstyle3">Abstracting and indexing as topic, knowledge, medical subject headings</span></p>http://ijpm.mui.ac.ir/index.php/ijpm/article/view/2192http://ijpm.mui.ac.ir/index.php/ijpm/article/download/2192/717718069